Wasteland

18" x 18"

Agate, Glass, Unglazed Porcelain, Pewter, Aquarium Gravel, Colored Thinset

This piece began in a dream. Because the image was so void-like, I immediately thought of T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland," using lines from that poem as well as from "The Hollow Men" to create the pewter spiral that crashes into the deep. The pewter letter beads read: "We are the Hollow Men; We are the Stuffed Men; Pray for us Sinners now and at the hour of our Death; Pray for us now and at the . . . " The intersecting spirals of poetry and blank, floating faces overlap to form a rough heart shape, which seems to give the mosaic a less jarring feel.